Comments by "" (@MrEab2010) on "Top 10 Historically Inaccurate Movies" video.

The Untouchables is entertaining but it is almost complete fiction. Elliot Ness did almost nothing to bring down Al Capone and he did not kill Frank Nitti, among other glaring errors.
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@mickmcgrath7074 they should call it fiction. The only true scene was the "liquor" raid where Ness uncovered the tropical umbrellas.
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@Glicksman1 Ness was not even a Treasury agent, he was part of a Prohibition task force set up inside the Treasury Department. It is true that the Chicago press dubbed the local task force The Untouchables because they allegedly would not take bribes, but no one remembered Ness until he wrote ((with popular journalist Walter Winchell) his mostly exaggerated memoir The Untouchables before his death in 1957. The book was optioned by Desilu Studios for the tv series.
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